I do have a serious infestation of gnats, they didn't seem to be a big deal until this last week. There were thousands of larvae in the top soil of this plant, it was wet because it had just been transplanted and watered in and the gnats hit it hard. I've got traps, saucers of beer, and potato chunks going. I have an entire nursery of plants, including tobacco and veggies and I'm just breeding gnats. I hit them all with
hydrogen peroxide bath as well. Will have to wait and see how the war goes...so far they(gnats) are winning.
I'm just not sure gnat larvae ate the leaves, so I'm still left with the question, will they do that if there is contact with the soil? The maggots disgust me...I won't rest until I kill them all, even if I have to pick them out of the frackin soil one by one.
I had four black bean plants, they were doing great until I transplanted and put them in my veg room. Within two days every gnat planted itself on the bean plants, they are vining plants, every leaf and all the vines were covered, the plants appeared black from a distance. I couldn't tell what the gnats were doing all over the plant, most of the time they're in the soil, so it had me stumped, but I took them outside and found that at least half of the gnats were dead? but hanging on the plants. I left them outside. Shame, the sun, wind, and then rain, well I don't think the beans are going to make it. But anyway, that's when it got busy, and the amount of eggs those gnats laid is astronomical.
